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Sociolinguistics from the Periphery "presents a fascinating book about change: shifting political, economic and cultural conditions; ephemeral, sometimes even seasonal, multilingualism; and altered imaginaries for minority and indigenous languages and their users."

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This book provides a systematic survey of the theory and methods ofdictionary-making (including the linguistic background): what types ofdictionary there are, how different kinds of information are dealt withwhen compiling dictionaries, how this information is presented to users,and how dictionaries are actually used. It refers throughout to bothmonolingual and bilingual dictionaries, giving a full account of thewriting of definitions as well as of the selection and presentation ofequivalents. The treatment of other types of information provided indictionaries – such as pronunciation, inflection, constructions,collocations and idioms – is described systematically in individualchapters. The book also discusses dictionary structure, illustrations, thecollection and selection of material, the management of dictionaryprojects, law and ethics in lexicographic work, and dictionary criticism.As well as looking at print lexicography, the author discusses the role ofthe Web, electronic corpora, electronic dictionaries, and compilationsoftware used in dictionary-making. This is an important and practicalguide to contemporary lexicography, designed for lexicographers, languagestudents and teachers, translators and academics.